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Apr 17, 2023

Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for debut flight of Starship rocket system to space

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

BOCA CHICA, Texas, April 17 (Reuters) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX made final preparations early on Monday to launch its powerful new Starship rocket system to space for the first time, on a brief but highly anticipated uncrewed test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas.

The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet (120 m) high, was due for blastoff from the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica, Texas, during a two-hour launch window that opens at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).

The test mission, whether or not its objectives are entirely met, represents a key milestone in SpaceX’s ambition of sending humans back to the moon and ultimately to Mars — also the central goal of a renewed NASA spaceflight program intended to integrate the Starship.

Apr 17, 2023

Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI is already changing our lives. As the impact of this technology increases, so will its risks. What are these risks, and what can we do about them?

Apr 17, 2023

OpenAI Has Released a Pandora’s Box With ChatGPT

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI didn’t realize, that developing generalized large-language-modelling software, would eventually lead to ChaosGPT, an AI intent on destroying humanity.


AI software capable of acting on its own may not be sentient but it certainly is capable of independent negative thoughts about us.

Apr 17, 2023

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.

Apr 17, 2023

Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art by Peli Grietzer + BIO.

Apr 17, 2023

Singapore approves 16 species of insects including silkworms and grasshopper for human consumption

Posted by in categories: food, government, health, sustainability

Future food.


Think about grasshopper fries, a protein bar made of crickets or silkworm cocoons. As unconventional as it may sound, Singapore is trying to make insect food mainstream. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has given approval to 16 species of insects, such as crickets, silkworms and grasshoppers for human consumption.

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Apr 17, 2023

How to Summon Entities: A Glimpse into GPT-4 through the lens of Jungian Psychology & Jungian Archetypes

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

Introduction.
The GPT-4 language model is a remarkable AI technology that can generate human-like text.

While it lacks certain human psychological factors, such as individuation and the Jungian Shadow, GPT-4 demonstrates a fascinating awareness of archetypes and their role in shaping human behavior.

This article delves into GPT-4’s understanding of Jungian psychology and explores the implications of archetypes as a language-space phenomenon.

Apr 17, 2023

With Security Copilot, Microsoft brings the power of AI to cyberdefense

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

Trained across security and networking disciplines and armed with trillions of data signals, Security Copilot dramatically increases the reach, speed and effectiveness of any security team

REDMOND, Wash. — March 28, 2023 — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced it is bringing the next generation of AI to cybersecurity with the launch of Microsoft Security Copilot, giving defenders a much-needed tool to quickly detect and respond to threats and better understand the threat landscape overall. Security Copilot will combine Microsoft’s vast threat intelligence footprint with industry-leading expertise to augment the work of security professionals through an easy-to-use AI assistant.

“Today the odds remain stacked against cybersecurity professionals. Too often, they fight an asymmetric battle against relentless and sophisticated attackers,” said Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president, Microsoft Security. “With Security Copilot, we are shifting the balance of power into our favor. Security Copilot is the first and only generative AI security product enabling defenders to move at the speed and scale of AI.”

Apr 17, 2023

UK Power Grid Could Have World’s First Commercial Fusion Reactor

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

TAE Technologies hopes to have a net energy producing fusion reactor operating on the UK grid by the 2030s.

Apr 17, 2023

We May Finally Know How Our Eyesight Evolved, And It’s Not From Our Branch of Life

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution

The evolution of the human eye has long been considered one of biology’s more challenging mysteries, drawing debate over the sequence of steps required to turn rudimentary sensitivity to light into a complex photographic system.

New research suggests some components of vertebrate vision may not have been shaped incrementally as their genes passed down family lines, but were ‘stolen’ from entirely different branches of life.

“At least one innovation that led to the current structure of vertebrate eyes did not occur from stepwise “tinkering” with genes that exist in other animals, but came from introduction of novel DNA from bacteria by horizontal gene transfer,” explains molecular biologist Matt Daugherty from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on Twitter.